Asked by the president to mirror back to you to postpone those and the meeting but its up to you to do that. I cant make that decision for you. These items will be postponed to the next meeting or a future meeting. Are they here . The staff for items 8 and 9 are here. We should probably go ahead and do it because they sat here all of this time. Im sorry. 8 and 9 are here . Yes . All right, so, sorry, everyone. Item 8 is the 2016 Public Health and safety bond update. Thank you all who came for item 7 and well move to the next 7 and well move to the next [roll call] at this time we ask that you silence also phones and sound producing devices. Thank you. May i have a motion to approve the agenda . So moved. Second. Any discussion . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. May i have a motion to approve the august 7th, 2019 Meeting Minutes . So moved. Second. Any comments or changes . All in favor . Aye. The motion carries. Item four, directors report. Good morning, commissioners. I just wa
Good afternoon, everybody. Oh, my gosh. You to full familiar faces, lots of beautiful new faces. Welcome, everybody. This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss a
I also want to recognize one mike one voice. We all want to listen to the person that is speaking. We want to create a respectable environment so we can have this discussion. Is you last item received a q and a clip. If you have a slip, any questions, my colleagues noreen and marcus will be going around collecting them. You can raise them and we will go around collecting them so that at the end i will be emceeing so i will pass the mic over to you and you will be able to ask your question. Without further ado, it is my honor to introduce the representative of new york 14, alexandria ocasiocortez. [applause] thank you so much. Hello again. Theichele noted, one of Major Updates that we have this month is that we introduce our oft major sweeping sweep legislation known as the just society. One of the things we wanted to talk about, its a package of about five bills and one resolution that attacks some of the central core issues of poverty. We are talking about not just how we measure pove
Crying out loud. A, something historical already. Vegan is lining up to hear me speak and sit with you. [laughter] there is always one. How do you know someone is a vegan . Dont worry, we will tell you. [laughter] i got about 19 minutes to speak to you and im looking forward to answering questions. I want to jump right in on the theme of my campaign but more importantly, the theme of my life. I think its the most important theme of this country. Our founders were imperfect geniuses. They enshrined in our founding documents a lot of bigotry and hate. In our decoration of independence they called native americans savages and called women in our founding documents secondclass citizens and blacks were fractions of a human being but that was not the defining character of the country that has endured in the spirit they brought to humanity. They broke with the course of human events and said we would be the first a nation and the oldest constitutional democracy that would not be founded becau
Good morning, commissioners. I just want to start with the Older Americans act. I usually start with the federal level and i wanted to give you a report that the Older Americans the Congress Passed a shortterm continuation of the Older Americans act. As i mentioned before, it was some set it on september 30th so they passed a shortterm resolution to keep it going until november 21st. In the meantime, we are hoping to work out the appropriation differences that they have, so we had really news on the house side that there were actually they were proposing some increases for the Older Americans act and on the senate side, it was much less impressive. So theres still a lot of advocacy to be done, and hopefully our advocates from San Francisco will be thinking about how we can reach out and make sure that the Older Americans act gets funded at hopefully better levels than it currently looks like on the senate guide. We will keep you abreast of that situation, but it might be that the depar